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Tom Clark
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Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
Robbie Gibb wrote for @prospectmagazine.co.uk in 2020

He took on the cult of fact-checking
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39780...
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Chancellor offers the first straightforward acknowledgement of the principled argument for abolishing the 2-child limit that we’ve had from Labour’s top brass since Starmer’s 2023 announcement that he wouldn’t change it
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hutton report — The last time two BBC leaders resigned for warped editorialising on a point of detail in exposing a wider truth

After the Chilcot report some years later, it became tough to recall exactly which claim about “sexing up” the dossier had been wrong
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Unions down, wage share down

Thought-provoking chart from Sven Beckert’s monumental new history of Capitalism. (Calculated across multiple countries…)
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Seasonal colours come naturally to Violet the pet hen
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The reported “16% turnout” in Lab’s deputy leadership race is a % of a base dominated by members of affiliated unions

They generally don’t vote: in 2010 for the actual leadership affiliate turnout was 9%

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October 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New towns could be a last best hope for Britain’s flailing social democracy

But only if it learns to stand up to vested interests www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/hous...
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Interesting detail — this was not the usual by-election story of the “stay at home party” setting the rhythm. Turnout was up!
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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A splendid day for London developers
- Fast-track planning for a 20% (instead of 35%) affordable homes
- Emergency relief from Community Infrastructure Levy
- Some design restrictions withdrawn

But do any big brains understand this perhaps deliberately mangled para?
www.gov.uk/government/n...
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
That’s a good provocation on tax — maybe I’m lapsing into Treasury brain on revenue. Though could you really find £30-odd billion elsewhere? Or just wait for travel-fuelled growth?

Loved all the comparisons — this was a real jaw-dropper! Also differences in motorway building UK Vs everywhere else
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Extraordinary exchanges — almost feels as if this policy was being designed to engineer something like a new Windrush scandal
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Extraordinary story @patrickmaguire.bsky.social & G Pogrund

- No 10 briefing against PM’s own recent pick of Cab Sec

- floating replacing with limelight-drawing Louise Casey

If no longer a career civil service job, who would Farage go for?!
www.thetimes.com/article/fa96...
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Some Budget speculation re new Council Tax bands at top (good!) potentially assigned via extrapolations frm 1991 valuations (weird!)

Cld be a big snare

Errors -> howls of anguish

But how do you know which houses need fresh valuation without revaluing all?! www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Weird for a load of opinion from Barclays on the specific advantages of cutting social security to dominate write-up of @theifs.bsky.social Green Budget

Barclays provided the macro forecasts

Have they any authority on the Q of how to divvy up the pain? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Trump building, apparently successfully, on the argument that however important minority representation may be, the right to redraw the political map for party advantage must come first

Reads like satire but, reportedly, could soon gut voting rights act

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suprem...
October 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BBC asking Ofcom to allow LESS peak-time current affairs programming

OK, so there’s iPlayer now

But has public service current affairs coverage ever been more urgent?

www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The whole framing here is about “Trump bombast” making the difference rather than, say: Israeli public opinion souring on its govt; various US constituencies turning against war; the extraordinary diplomatic isolation of Israel

All these things at best half nodded at

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Guardian write-up states that the investigation ongoing, but hasn’t thus far turned up evidence of arson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
A provocative & unsparing look at the difficulties of confronting national-chauvinism around the world by Ivan Krastev

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lib...
October 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Badenoch commits to leaving ECHR

Only 2 precedents exist: the Greek junta in 1967 & Vladimir Putin in 2022

Sharper response just to name them?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM